5 Best Membership Platforms for Grief Coaches (2026 Guide)
The best membership platforms for grief coaches do two things at once: they hold a private, steady space where bereaved members can return month after month, and they give the coach a quiet way to notice who is slipping away, who has an anniversary coming up and who needs a referral rather than another worksheet. Most membership tools only do the first half. They sell access to a community and a course library, then leave the coach to run 1:1 sessions, intake, agreements and check-ins somewhere else.
Our pick is Coachful, because it puts the membership, the loss circle, the 1:1 sessions, the gentle daily check-ins and the payments behind one login, with the client seeing your branding inside one app. We make Coachful, so weigh that, and read the four alternatives below with their real prices and limits as listed in October 2026. If you mainly need a large public-facing community, Mighty Networks or Circle may suit you better, and we say exactly when.
What do grief coaches actually need from a membership platform?
Grief coaches need a membership platform that supports a long, uneven client journey, not a quick transformation funnel. Loss does not move in tidy twelve-week arcs, and the software has to respect that.
Look at how most grief coaching practices are built. A typical mix includes:
- 1:1 support after a loss, often starting in the first months, when a client may book one session at a time before committing to anything longer.
- Closed loss circles: six to eight week cohorts for a specific loss (a spouse or partner, a parent, a child, pregnancy or infant loss, pet loss, loss by suicide) where the same small group meets weekly.
- An ongoing membership for people who finished a circle and want to keep a place to come back to: a monthly live gathering, a private feed and a library of reflections.
- Self-paced courses such as "the first year after loss", "getting through the holidays" or "anticipatory grief for caregivers".
- Seasonal workshops around Mother's Day, Father's Day, the winter holidays and the anniversary period, which many grieving people dread.
- Workplace or hospice partnerships, where an organisation pays for a group of bereaved employees or family members.
That mix shapes the requirements. You need private groups that are genuinely closed, so a widowed member never sees a post from someone in a pregnancy loss circle unless you put them together on purpose. You need between-session touchpoints that feel like reflection, not productivity: a short evening check-in asking how today felt is useful; a leaderboard is not. You need to see quiet members early, because withdrawal can be part of grief, and it can also be a sign that someone needs more help than coaching offers. And you need payments that are kind: payment plans, monthly memberships that cancel easily, and no surprise renewals landing on a hard date.
Where grief coaching stops and clinical care begins
Coaching is not grief therapy or treatment. A grief coach supports people through normal, if painful, grief: meaning-making, routines, rebuilding identity, practical next steps. Some grief needs clinical care. The American Psychiatric Association recognises prolonged grief disorder, a diagnosis for grief that stays intense and impairing for an extended period, at least a year after the death for adults. The National Cancer Institute's bereavement summary for health professionals covers the difference between normal grief and complicated grief in more depth.
Refer a client to a licensed mental health professional or their doctor when you see thoughts of suicide or self-harm, grief that is not easing at all over many months, heavy alcohol or drug use, inability to manage basic daily functioning, signs of trauma after a violent or sudden death, or symptoms of depression. In the United States, the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline is available by call or text. Put your referral language in your coaching agreement and in your community guidelines, not just in your head. And because none of the platforms in this list are built as clinical record systems (Coachful is not HIPAA-certified), clinical notes belong with a clinician, not in your coaching platform.
For a wider look at grief coaching tools beyond memberships, see our guide to the best coaching software for grief and loss coaches, and for the general category, our membership platforms for coaches comparison.
Which membership platform is best for grief coaches at a glance?
Coachful ranks first for grief coaches because it keeps the whole client journey, from first gentle consult to an ongoing membership, inside one platform. Here is how the five compare.
Ranking criteria: one login for the whole client journey, support between sessions (check-ins and reflections), total stack cost once you add booking and agreements, and setup effort, including Coachful's free white-glove build.
| Platform | Best for | Starting price | Platform fee on sales | Main gap for grief coaches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coachful | 1:1 work, loss circles and an ongoing membership in one place | Lite: $29/month for up to 5 clients | 0% (processing by your own Stripe or Razorpay) | No PayPal; not a clinical record system |
| Mighty Networks | A larger, community-first grief network with livestreamed gatherings | $95/mo Launch ($79/mo annual) | 2% Launch, 1% Scale, 0.5% higher plans | No 1:1 scheduling, contracts or per-client check-ins |
| Kajabi | Course-led grief businesses with a big email list | $179/mo Basic ($143/mo annual) | None with Kajabi Payments; 0.5 to 2% with other processors | No habits or daily check-ins; Basic has 5 products |
| Circle | A polished peer-support community with events | $89/mo Professional (annual) | 2% Professional, 1% Business and Scale | No 1:1 scheduling or client back office |
| Podia | A simple storefront for one course and a small community | $49/mo Mover ($42/mo annual) | 5% on Mover; 0% on Shaker and Earthquaker | Small email allowances; no per-client plans |
How did we choose these five platforms?
We started from the offers grief coaches actually sell, listed above, and asked which platforms can host a private recurring membership plus at least one of: cohorts, courses or 1:1 work. That ruled out pure booking tools and pure email tools.
Then we checked each vendor's documented features and pricing as listed in October 2026 (from our vendor records, which are dated), the platform fee they take on each sale, the trial terms and what public reviewers report on Trustpilot. We did not run hands-on tests for this article; where a vendor does not document something, we say so rather than guess.
We weighted four things heavily, because they matter more in grief work than in most niches:
- Privacy and separation of groups. Can you run several closed circles without members crossing over?
- Gentle between-session contact. Reflection check-ins, journaling prompts and the ability to see who has gone quiet.
- Fee and cost predictability. Many grief coaches price accessibly or offer sliding scales, so a 2 to 5% platform fee on top of card processing hurts.
- Setup effort. Many grief coaches come to this work after their own loss, often from nursing, hospice, chaplaincy, social work or teaching, not from marketing. A platform that needs five integrations to work is a real barrier.
We left out Skool even though it is popular for paid communities: its gamified leaderboards and points sit badly with grieving members, it has no custom-domain website or email automation, and it carries a Trustpilot rating of 1.6 from 54 reviews (seen October 2026). We also left out Stan Store, which is a link-in-bio shop rather than a membership home, and Thinkific, which is strongest for course-heavy academies and has no built-in 1:1 scheduling.
1. Coachful: best overall membership platform for grief coaches
Coachful is a coaching platform where one subscription covers booking, payments, coaching agreements, programs with check-ins and habits, courses, a community, a website with funnels and email, and an AI assistant. For a grief coach, that means the free consult, the loss circle, the monthly membership and the self-paced holiday course all live in the same place, and a bereaved client only learns one app.
How the client journey runs in one place
A typical grief client does not buy a membership first. They book a single conversation, often weeks or months after a death. In Coachful, your booking page handles availability rules, buffers, minimum notice and time-zone detection, with two-way Google, Apple/iCloud and Outlook calendar sync. You can add intake questions on booking, so you learn who died, when, and what the person hopes for before you speak, without asking them to retell it on the call. Sessions run on built-in video or auto-created Zoom, Meet or Teams links, with email reminders, plus SMS and WhatsApp reminders once messaging is enabled.
Before the first call, Coachful sends your coaching agreement for e-signature and stores it on the client record. That is where your scope language lives: what coaching covers, what it does not, and when you will suggest a therapist or doctor. Our coaching contracts page shows how agreements work.
Loss circles, memberships and the community
When someone enrolls in a program, Coachful creates a cohort group for it automatically. So your "Losing a Parent" circle and your "Pregnancy and Infant Loss" circle each get their own group chat, separate from each other, without manual setup. The wider community feed, direct messages and video events sit alongside, so graduates of every circle can join one ongoing membership space if you choose. Group calls and webinars cover your weekly circle meetings and your seasonal workshops. More on this on our group coaching software page.
For the membership itself, payments run through your own Stripe Connect or Razorpay account: monthly subscriptions, one-time purchases, payment plans, coupons, refunds, Apple Pay and Google Pay. Coachful takes a 0% platform fee (since August 2026), so only card processing applies. Coupons make sliding-scale or scholarship places straightforward, and payment plans help a widowed client spread the cost of a longer program.
Check-ins that feel like reflection
Programs in Coachful run multi-week with weekly goals, daily tasks, habits, and morning and evening check-ins. For grief work, the evening check-in is the useful part: a short question about how today went, what was hard, one thing that helped. You choose the wording. Each client record then shows goals, check-ins, notes, intake answers, tags, payments and sessions, with a status of thriving, active, quiet or at risk. That "quiet" status matters here: it gives you an early signal to reach out to a member who has stopped posting, before they cancel or before a hard period goes unnoticed.
Here is a short walkthrough of how a client journey is built in Coachful:
Courses for the first year and the hard seasons
Courses in Coachful have modules, lessons, drip release and completion tracking, and you can add downloads, videos, books and events, bundled however you like. A drip-released "first year after loss" course can open one lesson a month, so a member is not handed twelve months of material in week one. Everything is delivered into the client's branded home and app. There are 48 course templates with quizzes if you want a starting structure.
Michelle, the built-in AI assistant, works from your live practice data. She can draft a gentle welcome email sequence, outline a course, summarise a recorded session, and brief you before a session so you walk in remembering that this client's mother's birthday is next week. Questions and planning are included in your Coachful membership; confirmed builds and changes use AI credits. If you hold or are working toward an ICF credential, Coachful also counts your coaching hours and distinct clients against ACC, PCC and MCC thresholds and exports an ICF client coaching log (ICF hour tracking).
Why Coachful stands out: a free white-glove service. From Create, then "We'll build it for you · FREE", you describe what you want built, such as a calm website, a free consultation funnel, a loss circle program, a course outline, an email sequence or a form, and attach up to 8 reference links and up to 10 files (logo, photos, existing copy). The Coachful team builds it inside your own account, usually within about 24 hours. Nothing is invented: no fake credentials, testimonials or prices, and any gaps are left for you to fill. A menopause and midlife health coach starting from nothing, for example, got a five-page site in sage and cream with every button leading to a free 20-minute consultation, a shape that suits a grief practice well. It does not include recording your videos, logo design or running ads. Read more about the free white-glove service.
What Coachful does not do
- It is not HIPAA-certified and offers no BAA, so it is not for clinical record-keeping or insurance billing.
- There is no PayPal and no permanent free plan, though there is a free trial.
- Your client app ships under the Coachful listing with your branding, not under your own App Store account.
- It is not a course marketplace, so it will not bring you strangers browsing for grief courses; you bring your own audience.
Price: flat monthly plans, with lower plans capping the number of clients and Pro unlimited (Lite: $29/month for up to 5 clients; Solo: $49/month for up to 20 clients; Pro: $99/month with unlimited clients; Studio: $199/month with unlimited clients). Monthly plans cancel in one click.
Who it suits: grief coaches who mix 1:1 work, small cohorts and an ongoing membership, solo coaches growing into a small team, and anyone currently paying for a booking tool, a course host, a community app and an email tool separately.
2. Mighty Networks: best for a large community-first grief network
Mighty Networks is a community, course and events platform with Mighty-branded member apps. It suits a grief coach whose main offer is the community itself, such as a national network for widowed parents or a peer space for bereaved siblings, with livestreamed gatherings and member-led conversation.
Where it fits a grief practice
The strength here is scale and livestreaming. Launch includes 3 hosts, 10 moderators and 20 hours a month of livestreaming for up to 100 attendees; Scale raises that to 5 hosts, 15 moderators, 30 hours and 200 attendees. For a grief network that runs a monthly remembrance gathering or a weekly open circle, built-in livestreaming with moderator seats is genuinely useful. Moderator seats matter in grief spaces: someone has to watch for posts that signal a crisis, and spreading that across trained volunteers or co-facilitators is safer than carrying it alone.
Courses and events sit next to the community, so a "surviving the holidays" course can live beside the feed members already visit.
Price as listed in October 2026
- Launch: $95/mo, or $79/mo billed annually.
- Scale: $215/mo, or $179/mo billed annually.
- Growth: $354/mo billed annually (monthly price not listed).
- Mighty Pro: custom pricing, which is where your own branded apps live.
Mighty takes a platform fee on sales of 2% on Launch, 1% on Scale and 0.5% on Growth and Mighty Pro, plus Stripe processing. The trial is 14 days with no card required and includes Growth features, which means the trial can feel richer than the Launch plan you may actually buy.
The limits
Mighty Networks has no 1:1 scheduling, invoicing or contracts, and no per-client habits, check-ins or private coaching plans. For a grief coach who also does individual work, that means a separate booking tool, a separate e-signature tool, and no single view of how each member is doing between gatherings. On Trustpilot it shows 3.3 from 219 reviews (seen October 2026).
Pick it over Coachful if your business is mostly a large peer community with many moderators and frequent livestreams, and you rarely or never do 1:1 sessions.
3. Kajabi: best for a course-led grief business with a big list
Kajabi is a course, community, website, funnel and email platform for selling knowledge products. Grief coaches who already have an audience, perhaps from a book, a podcast or years of writing about loss, often look at it to sell a flagship course and a membership to that list.
What a grief coach gets
Kajabi is strong at the marketing layer: a website, funnels and email in one system, so a free "letters for the first holiday without them" download can lead into a paid course and then a community. Growth adds 500 AI credits and up to 50 products and 25,000 contacts, which is enough for a grief educator with a sizeable following. Coaching in Kajabi is delivered through products and communities rather than per-client plans.
Plans and fees, October 2026
- Basic: $179/mo ($143/mo annual): 5 products, 2,500 contacts, 1 community, 0 AI credits.
- Growth: $249/mo ($199/mo annual): 50 products, 25,000 contacts, 500 AI credits.
- Pro: $499/mo ($399/mo annual): unlimited products, 100,000 contacts, 3 communities, 1,000 AI credits.
Kajabi Payments in the US costs 2.9% + $0.30 on Basic, falling to 2.7% + $0.30 on Pro. Using another processor (other than PayPal) adds a Kajabi fee of 2% on Basic, 1% on Growth or 0.5% on Pro on top of that processor's fees. The standard trial is 14 days; a card is optional, but if you enter one Kajabi places an authorization hold and charges when the trial ends, and some features such as bulk contact import stay locked until you pay.
What gets in the way
The Basic plan's 5-product cap fills fast in grief work: a parent-loss circle, a partner-loss circle, a holiday course, a membership and a 1:1 package is already five. There is no habit tracking or daily client check-in, so the gentle evening reflection has to happen by email or not at all. Trustpilot shows 3.4 from 2,347 reviews (seen October 2026).
Pick it over Coachful if you sell mainly courses to a large existing audience, rarely run small cohorts or 1:1 work, and want Kajabi's marketing tools as the centre of the business.
4. Circle: best for a polished peer-support community
Circle is a community platform with courses, events, live streams and paid memberships. It suits grief coaches who want a calm, well-organised member space with separate spaces for each loss type, and who handle 1:1 work elsewhere or not at all.
Why grief coaches consider it
Circle's spaces let you separate a widowhood space from a child-loss space and a caregiver space inside one community, with moderators assigned. Events and live streams cover monthly gatherings. All three self-serve plans include AI credits (2,500 a month on Professional and Business), which helps with drafting welcome posts and summaries.
Cost and terms in October 2026
- Professional: $89/mo billed annually, 3 admins, 10 moderators.
- Business: $199/mo billed annually, 5 admins, 15 moderators.
- Scale: $419/mo billed annually, 10 admins, 100 moderators.
- Circle Plus: custom pricing, needed for branded mobile apps.
Monthly prices were not listed in our records. Circle takes 2% of payments on Professional, 1% on Business and Scale and 0.5% on Circle Plus, on top of Stripe processing. The 14-day trial needs no card.
Trade-offs
Circle has no 1:1 scheduling and no client management back office, and no per-client habits, check-ins or coaching plans. You cannot see from one record that a member booked a session last week, signed their agreement, stopped checking in and has an anniversary on Friday. Trustpilot shows 4.1 from 129 reviews (seen October 2026). For more community-focused options, see our list of community platforms for grief coaches.
Pick it over Coachful if your offer is a pure community membership with several moderated spaces, you are paying annually, and individual coaching is not part of what you sell.
5. Podia: best simple storefront for a first grief course
Podia is a simple storefront for courses, downloads, webinars, coaching sessions and a community. It suits a grief coach just starting to sell one course or a small community and who wants the fewest moving parts.
The appeal for new grief coaches
Podia keeps things plain. A coach can put up a holiday grief workshop, a downloadable remembrance journal and a small community and start taking payments in an afternoon. The 14-day trial gives full access without a card or a plan choice.
What it costs (October 2026)
- Mover: $49/mo ($42/mo annual), 50 products, 25 community spaces, 100 email subscribers included, and a 5% Podia transaction fee.
- Shaker: $99/mo ($84/mo annual), 150 products, 500 email subscribers, 0% Podia fee.
- Earthquaker: $179/mo ($150/mo annual), unlimited products, 1,000 email subscribers, 0% Podia fee.
Stripe or PayPal processing (2.9% + 30¢ standard) applies on top.
Where it falls short
The included email allowances are small, which matters because email is how many grief coaches reach people who are not ready to join a group. Our older profile notes no mobile app and no native video calls, so circle meetings run on a separate video tool. There are no client habits, check-ins or per-client plans. Trustpilot shows 4.1 from 153 reviews (seen October 2026).
Pick it over Coachful if you only want to sell one or two digital products to a small list, need PayPal at checkout, and do not plan to run 1:1 work or cohorts yet.
How do the features compare for grief coaching?
Coachful is the only one of the five with 1:1 booking, agreements and per-client check-ins built in alongside the membership. The others are stronger as communities or course stores.
| Platform | 1:1 booking | Agreements with e-signature | Per-client check-ins and habits | Courses with drip | Closed groups per cohort | Website and funnels | Email sequences |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coachful | Yes, with intake questions and calendar sync | Yes, sent before the first call | Yes, morning and evening check-ins | Yes | Yes, created automatically on enrollment | Yes | Yes, with branching |
| Mighty Networks | No | No | No | Yes | Community spaces | Not listed in our records | Not listed in our records |
| Kajabi | Coaching sold as products | Not listed in our records | No | Yes | 1 to 3 communities by plan | Yes | Yes |
| Circle | No | Not listed in our records | No | Yes | Spaces within a community | Not listed in our records | Not listed in our records |
| Podia | Sells coaching sessions; no native video | Not listed in our records | No | Yes | Community spaces (25 on Mover) | Storefront | Yes, small subscriber allowances |
What does each platform cost at 5, 15 and 40 clients?
At small sizes the gap is mostly about what you have to add on. Community tools charge the same at 5 or 40 members, but a grief coach doing 1:1 work also pays for a booking tool and an e-signature tool on top. The figures below are list prices as published in October 2026, before card processing.
| Platform | 5 clients | 15 clients | 40 clients | Also needed for 1:1 grief work |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coachful | Lite: $29/month for up to 5 clients | Solo: $49/month for up to 20 clients | Pro: $99/month with unlimited clients | Nothing extra; 0% platform fee |
| Mighty Networks | $95/mo Launch + 2% of sales | $95/mo Launch + 2% of sales | $95/mo Launch + 2% of sales | Booking, contracts, video calls for 1:1 |
| Kajabi | $179/mo Basic | $179/mo Basic (5-product cap) | $249/mo Growth if you need more than 5 products | Booking and check-in tool |
| Circle | $89/mo Professional (annual) + 2% | $89/mo Professional (annual) + 2% | $89/mo Professional (annual) + 2% | Booking, contracts, client records |
| Podia | $49/mo Mover + 5% of sales | $99/mo Shaker (0% fee) once fees pass $50/mo | $99/mo Shaker | Video calls, check-ins, larger email list |
As an illustrative example of how the platform fee adds up: if a membership brings in $2,000 a month, a 2% fee is $40 a month and a 5% fee is $100 a month, every month, on top of card processing. For pricing the membership itself, our guide to the membership site model for coaches walks through tiers and costs.
How would a grief coach set this up in Coachful, step by step?
Here is one way a grief coach could go from nothing to a working practice: a free consult, an eight-week loss circle, and an ongoing monthly membership. The program names and structure are an example; adapt them to your own offers.
- Ask for the website and consult funnel to be built. Open Create, choose "We'll build it for you · FREE", and describe a quiet site with a home page, an About page explaining your own path into grief work, a page per offer, and every button leading to a free consultation. Attach your photo and any writing you already have. The team builds it in your account, usually within about 24 hours, and leaves gaps where they need your words.
- Set up the consult booking. Create a free 30-minute session type with a minimum notice and buffer that protect your energy, and add two or three intake questions: who you are grieving, roughly when they died, and what you are hoping for. Keep them optional; some people cannot type it yet.
- Write your agreement. Add a coaching agreement that states what coaching covers, that it is not therapy, when you will recommend a therapist or doctor, and the crisis resources for your country. Coachful sends it for e-signature before the first paid session and keeps it on the client record.
- Build the eight-week circle as a program. Give each week a gentle goal (week one: telling the story; week four: the hardest days; week seven: carrying them forward) and one or two optional daily tasks such as a short letter or a walk. Turn on the evening check-in with your own wording, for example "What was today like? Was there one moment of ease?"
- Let the cohort group form itself. When members enroll in the circle, Coachful creates their cohort group automatically, so each circle has its own private chat. Schedule the eight weekly group calls on the calendar.
- Add the ongoing membership. Create a monthly subscription offer through your Stripe account for graduates: access to the community feed, one live gathering a month and a growing library. Add a coupon for scholarship places if you offer them.
- Add a drip course for the hard seasons. Build a short course released in the weeks before the winter holidays, and make it part of the membership bundle.
- Write the follow-up emails. Use an email sequence with delays for people who had a consult but did not join: one note a few days later, one a few weeks later, nothing pushy. Michelle can draft these from your notes for you to edit.
- Watch the quiet list each week. Each Monday, look at members whose status has changed to quiet or at risk, and send a personal message. Note any client who needs a referral and follow your agreement.
If you want more on getting clients into this setup in the first place, read our guide to platforms to get clients for grief coaches and our list of email marketing platforms for grief coaches.
What mistakes should grief coaches avoid when choosing a membership platform?
The common mistakes come from borrowing setups designed for fitness or business coaching and dropping them onto grieving people.
- Gamifying grief. Points, leaderboards and loud streak badges suit a 30-day challenge. In a loss circle they can make a member feel they are failing at grieving. Prefer reflection check-ins and keep habit language soft.
- One big open group for every kind of loss. A member who lost a baby and a member who lost a 94-year-old grandparent may both deserve support, but not necessarily in the same thread. Separate circles by loss type, at least at first.
- No written scope or crisis plan. Decide in advance what you will do if a member posts about wanting to die, and write it into your agreement and community guidelines.
- Badly timed sales emails. An automated "last chance" email on Mother's Day to a mother who lost a child is a real risk with generic sequences. Review every automated message with the calendar in mind.
- Ignoring the platform fee. A 2 to 5% cut on an accessibly priced membership adds up month after month. Compare total cost, not the headline plan.
- Storing clinical notes in a coaching tool. If you are also a licensed clinician, keep clinical records in a clinical system. None of these platforms is the place for them.
- Making cancellation hard. People leave grief memberships because they are doing better. That is success. Make leaving easy and leave the door open.
Which membership platform should a grief coach choose?
Choose Coachful if your practice mixes 1:1 sessions, small loss circles and an ongoing membership, which describes most grief coaches. It keeps intake, agreements, check-ins, cohorts, community, courses and payments in one place with a 0% platform fee, and the free white-glove build removes most of the setup work.
Choose Mighty Networks or Circle if your business is mainly a large peer community with moderators and you do little individual work. Choose Kajabi if you sell courses to a big existing audience and want its marketing tools at the centre. Choose Podia if you are selling one or two products to a small list and want the simplest possible start.
Whatever you choose, build the scope line, the referral path and the quiet-member check into the setup from day one. For the cohort side of the practice, our list of group coaching platforms for grief coaches goes deeper, and the course platforms for grief coaches list covers self-paced offers.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best membership platform for grief coaches?
Coachful is our pick for most grief coaches because it combines 1:1 booking, coaching agreements, private cohort groups, an ongoing community, courses and gentle daily check-ins under one login. Mighty Networks and Circle are good alternatives for coaches who run a large community and little 1:1 work.
Is grief coaching the same as grief counselling?
No. Grief coaching supports people through normal grief with reflection, routines and next steps, while grief counselling and therapy are clinical services delivered by licensed professionals. Coaches should refer clients to a clinician when they see signs of prolonged grief disorder, depression, substance misuse or thoughts of self-harm.
Can I run separate loss circles for different kinds of loss in Coachful?
Yes. Each program you create gets its own cohort group automatically when people enroll, so a partner-loss circle and a pregnancy loss circle stay separate. You can still invite graduates from every circle into one shared membership community.
Is Coachful HIPAA-compliant for grief work?
No. Coachful is not HIPAA-certified and does not sign a BAA, so it is not for clinical records or insurance billing. Coaching notes, agreements and check-ins fit there; clinical notes from therapy work belong in a clinical system.
What is Coachful's free white-glove service?
It is a free build service on every plan: you describe what you want, such as a website, a consult funnel, a loss circle program, a course outline or an email sequence, and attach references and files. The Coachful team builds it inside your account, usually within about 24 hours, without inventing credentials, testimonials or prices.
How much should a grief coaching membership cost?
There is no single right price. Start from what your live time and community moderation take each month, compare with what your audience can afford, and consider tiers or scholarship coupons. Test a founding-member price with your first circle graduates before setting a public price.
Do I need a platform with a mobile app for grief clients?
It helps, because many grieving people check in late at night on their phone. Coachful clients use your branding inside the Coachful app; Mighty Networks and Circle offer member apps, with fully branded apps only on their custom-priced top plans.
Which platforms charge a fee on membership sales?
As listed in October 2026, Mighty Networks takes 0.5 to 2%, Circle 0.5 to 2%, Podia 5% on its Mover plan, and Kajabi adds 0.5 to 2% if you use a processor other than Kajabi Payments or PayPal. Coachful charges a 0% platform fee, so only Stripe or Razorpay processing applies.
Can I move my existing grief members into Coachful?
Yes. Clients, programs and content are imported for you during onboarding, and you can export your full client data as a ZIP later if you ever leave. Check what your current platform lets you export before you switch.
Does Coachful accept PayPal for memberships?
No. Coachful takes payments through your own Stripe Connect or Razorpay account, including cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay. If PayPal is essential for your members, Podia supports it.
